John Dale Sylvester (April 5, 1915 – January 8, 1990) was an American packing machinery company executive who was best known for a promise made to him by Babe Ruth during the 1926 World Series. Sylvester was seriously ill and hospitalized. Ruth said he would hit a home run on his behalf, which was followed by what was widely reported at the time as Sylvester's miraculous recovery.
visiting the Sylvester home in Gary, Indiana in person and shows Ruth in the boy's bedroom telling Johnny that he will hit a home run if Johnny hangs in there...
According to newspaper reports, Ruth had promised a sickly boy named JohnnySylvester to hit a home run for him in Game 4. After Ruth's three-homer game...
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American actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone has appeared in over 81 films. This is a list of his acting roles as well as directing, screenwriting...
features the song "JohnnySylvester Comes Back to Visit the Babe", in which he put words and music to the story of Babe Ruth and JohnnySylvester. In 2004, Bern...
band. Johnny Strong has had various roles in television, and landed a role in the Steven Seagal film The Glimmer Man. He then worked on Sylvester Stallone's...
promise to JohnnySylvester, a hospitalized 11-year-old boy. Ruth promised the child that he would hit a home run on his behalf. Sylvester had been injured...
Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver Jr. (December 21, 1908 – March 15, 2002) was an American broadcasting executive who was president of NBC between 1953 and...
as Jerry Sykes in Moonrise (1948) Dylan Day and Stephen Caffrey as JohnnySylvester in The Babe (1992) Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, and Vanessa Redgrave...
Yankees win the 1923 World Series. Later he hits two home runs for JohnnySylvester, a sick boy whom he had recently visited in hospital. Two years later...
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Johnny Carson on NBC, the third iteration of the Tonight Show franchise...
Sylvester Stewart (born March 15, 1943), better known by his stage name Sly Stone, is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most...
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John Peters Ringo (May 3, 1850 – July 13, 1882), known as Johnny Ringo, was an American Old West outlaw loosely associated with the Cochise County Cowboys...
had reportedly already been underway) succeeded shortly afterwards, with Johnny Keane, who was considered likely to be fired from his position as St. Louis...
brother, Carmine. Six days after his birth, his mother died of peritonitis. Johnny's father soon married a woman named Verena Freitag. In 1940, after Stompanato's...
going to testify in a case involving the murder of prostitute Barbara Sylvester in his father's restaurant. Ralph DeMasi, a Boston mobster incarcerated...
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